Andrew ThorntonSmith

Specialist O365 Consultant @Mint_Consulting Power Automate and PowerApps, Sucker for all things tech.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Remember iron lungs for polio?

No me neither.

Because vaccines work

[Matthew Devaney @mattbdevaney]

#PowerApps Is Down 🤯

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@maxui The green one methinks.

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

I am doing a 40km hike for charity with Mint UK. If you are able to and would like to donate please do.
Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge for CALM https://t.co/1wlbCh7jvb

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Microsoft SharePoint @SharePoint]

😎 Back to basics - Engaging with Your Team via Viva Goals

Learn how Viva Goals fosters team engagement with interactive features from tracking progress to social interactions.

📺 Dive in → https://t.co/xYojHYxCIW

#MicrosoftViva #VivaGoals #Microsoft365

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@CityPowerJhb Hey guys. Any updates? It's been off pretty much all morning, inverters etc can only last so long. People need power to work.

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@CityPowerJhb @CityPowerJhb it's now been 18 hours without power, please give us an update?
Even if its that you don't know but are investigating? But tell us something?

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@CityPowerJhb So, any updates, been well over 12 hours with no power. What is being done?

[PowerApps911- Power Platform Consulting & Training @PowerApps911]

🌟 Calling all Power Platform enthusiasts! Our new blog post is a game-changer. It's packed with insights on how to effectively patch Dataverse columns in Power Apps. What's the most challenging aspect of Dataverse for you?💬 #PowerApps #Dataverse https://t.co/saYYeuyElj

[Daniel Christian @dchristian19]

👋🏼Hey Everyone,
Do you really know where all the data in Microsoft Forms is saved? Is it in OneDrive? Or is it in Exchange? And did some change occur in back in 2019 for eDiscovery? And also, is Viva Pulse affected by all of this? All of this will be covered in this 👇🏼 video. 📺
Watch 👀, learn 🧠 and share 🥰!
#MicrosoftForms #MicrosoftViva #Ediscovery #MicrosoftExchange
🔗https://t.co/5uijro38Ip

[Hassan Habib @HassanRezkHabib]

You can't get some project done faster by just throwing more engineers at it - some things take time

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@maxui

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@GarethStep Kyalami hills

[AllQuakes - EMSC @EMSC]

#Earthquake (#aardbewing) M4.8 strikes 12 km SE of #Johannesburg (South Africa) 7 min ago. More info: https://t.co/U5rsXALzVP

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

Anyone else feel that earth tremor. Kyalami hills? Almost a minute too...
#EarthTremor

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@CityPowerJhb I assume this covers Kyalami hills too? Whole area is out.
Thanks

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@GCSolarSolution hey guys. How on earth does one get hold of you? The office numbers either don't work or never gets answered. Email also unanswered. My order status hasn't been updated in a week.
I just would like an update?

[Andrew ThorntonSmith @AThorntonSmith]

@engineers_feed E3